How far are you away from your "spawn point" (place of birth)? Do you currently consider that city/town to be "home"?
How far are you away from your "spawn point" (place of birth)? Do you currently consider that city/town to be "home"?
I'm about 12,950 Kilometers from my spawn point, according to Google Earth. That place is not "home" since I barely have any memories of it, and left the country during primary school.
13,300 km (8,264 mi) away from "spawn point", ~14,000 km from "home".
I'm about 8036.68 miles , 12933.78 kilometers from where I was born and where I am isn't my home but now it's been so long since I've gone back that I'm not sure it will feel like home if I go back either
5284km this place feels like home because this is where I've slept for the last 4 years.
500km... About 4 hours. Was never home though.
About 8,100 miles, as the crow flies.
I live around 40 miles from where I was born.
My home is where I am and who I'm with now. My spawn point is somewhere I managed to survive long enough to stage my successful escape.
After trying out another country (Switzerland) and other cities in Germany (Berlin and Kiel) im back in Hamburg where I spawned. Yea other places are nice as well but no matter where I went I liked it here more. But we are known for thinking our town is the most beautiful place on earth.
roughly 2200 miles, and no
Farthest away I have ever lived from where I was born? About 5500 miles. Again, neither were home. Don't know if I have a place that is really a home no matter where I am, because I have moved around a lot in my life.
~18 hours away. Yes, where I'm at currently is definitely home.
I was born in France, now I live in Japan. France is not home anymore.
Spawn point LOL
About 1-1.5 hours
I'm almost at the antipode of my spawn point but I moved here late enough in life that, while the rest of my household call here home, I still think of my birthplace as home. Some days it's hard.
I don't feel like
doing the mathgoogling it, but I was born Brooklyn, NY, USA. Currently a few miles outside Atlanta, GA, but my journey here takes me up and down the east coast, plus a place further south. I can't really think of NY as home because I've only lived there maybe 1.5 years at most, and 1 of those was as an infant.At 1 my family moved to GA, at 2 they moved to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (fathers home country), where my first memories are from. At 7 my mom left said father over his repeated cheating, so we moved back to Brooklyn for ~6 months (maybe less) then moved to Virginia until I hit 17 when I graduated highschool. Moved to Florida, lived there for years until 2017 and I moved to GA for a job.
I'm not sure I consider anywhere other than where I am now "home." I have fond memories of each place, but they just feel like phases of my past life, like elementary(well, 4 different elementary), middle, or highschool. I don't consider any of those schools any more of a school I went to than the others, and I generally treat "home" the same. It's just where I live now.
I also don't fully identify with any ethnic group either. I spoke without an accent in the island so never fully integrated, and then in the US I didn't quite have the same lived experience there either.
375 miles away from spawn point, but my tutorial zone (where I actually grew up) was 215 miles away from there and 215 miles away from my current home point.
I lived in the city of my birth for a bit for a job, fucking hated that city, it was never home. Lived off and on where I grew up, and now have lived in my current for about 10 years.
Where I grew up is a complicated feeling. I miss the Ozark mountains, the flatlands I live in now I don't like despite liking the city. But the area has changed so much and so rapidly it's like coming to the bones of an animal where nature has rapidly overtaken the body and saying that's the animal. It's... recognizable if you squint at it, but it's dead and gone and now something completely different.
I'm not sure if where I live now is "home" still. But if where I grew up was home, I can never go back there. I can live in that place, but the farming town is now a metro that is unrecognizable.
12005km from my place of birth where I still have family. But home is where I live
about a 58 hour walk right now but at timed I am >10,000 miles out
Just checked on the map. There's a stretch of about 11 miles that I consider to be home. I lived most of my life smack in the middle of that stretch .So about 5 and a half miles radius?
Feels like they langoliers in my mind
Thousands of miles and no.
A few hundred miles. And no i dont belong in this world.
13,245 km from spawn point, but home is always where my wife and cats are
38 miles away, but it should be noted that since being spawned, I've moved upwards of 3k miles from that point and then returned to my current location many years later.
6.5 km from my appartment to the hospital I was born in.
I was born in the neighboring city, currently live in the district that is closest to said city. However I grew up in a village 90km from here. My parents moved out of the city when I was 2. I lived in several different cities, even on a different continent for a while. A couple of years ago I moved here for a job and 5 years ago my now-husband and I found this appartment together which happens to be on the border of our city that is closest to the city I was born in.
I live 2.2 miles/3,5 km from my childhood home but have lived as far away as 4,383 miles/7.053 km away. Yes, I would consider my hometown as my current home.
About 5,743 miles (9,227 km) from my spawn point, and no, it's not home, although I wish it were now that the US has decided to be fascist. I was born in an American army hospital in Stuttgart, Germany.
My house is about 2 miles away from the hospital where I was born but only a couple of meters from the spot where the house my parents lived in when I was born used to stand, which means there's a good chance I can see the spot where I was conceived from my upstairs window.
I am less than a mile from the hospital I was born in. Like some middle ages peasant.
The city grew up with me, or I grew up with it; when I was young there was not much to do and it was quite violent. Through my life it has become vibrant and safer, not that I had anything to do with it. Now there is so much to do, beautiful parks, concerts, downtown came back to life.
I have visited other places, for months at a time before I had kids, and shorter trips after. But here actually is home, it's funny. I wouldn't have dreamed it when I was a little kid.
I live about 6 hours and in the neighboring state from where I was born, though I've also lived further away. It's hard to consider it home - my parents were divorced and living in different states since before I was born, and I've lived with both of them and moved around on my own besides. My mom's the only one left in my home state, but I would never want to live there again because it's deep red and way wrong for me climate-wise.
I have been about 4500 miles away for most of my life, but I was home sick so I moved closer and I am now only 1500 miles away from spawn.
So many location based questions here lately. Little sus ngl
About 120 miles, which in the UK is like a weekend trip at least
100km now, but even though i say I’m from there, i have no family and barely any acquaintances left. Still can do the dialect, though, if i make an effort. Usually don’t. And in a couple of years, I’ll move hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. Again.
Other side of the country.
7km, and yes, still home lol
I'm about 500 meters from the place where the hospital I was born stood (the building still exists, but it's something else now).
I grew up in this city since my parents moved here before I was born. I also lived here half of my adult life and I'm thinking of leaving.
I have no emotional connection with this city. My family is from a different region of the country and we have a very different culture. My heart is with my parents hometown and I always identify myself with the region autonym.
I'm at home in a town about 10-15 miles from the town and hospital I was born in (as the crow flies.)
And I've lived the majority of my life in a town that's probably about another 3 miles from there.
If I were asked to name my home town, I wouldn't give the name of the town with the hospital, I'd give the town I grew up in.
But it's all close enough together that all three towns share a certain sense of hominess for me, I have childhood memories from all 3 towns.
We all speak, more-or-less, the same local dialect with the same slang (there's a couple shibboleths and bits of local lore that are unique to one part of the county over another) We enjoy the same local foods, root for the same sports teams, attend a lot of the same big local events, etc.
I proudly, and without a hint of irony, tell people that my ancestry is from that town I grew up in.
Yes, if you go back 3+ generations, you'll find that all of my ancestors came from various European countries. Little bits of that has trickled down to the current generation, like a certain fondness for pierogi and kielbasa from my Polish side.
But that's also part of my local culture, those are fairly common food items here too.
I don't speak any of the languages my ancestors spoke, I've never set foot in those countries. Even my family name hasn't really carried over, my great great grandfather changed the name after having already lived here for some time under the original Italian name. It's a pretty unusual anglicization that barely resembles the original name, and anywhere in the world you may happen to encounter someone with my name, you know they can trace their heritage back to my home town.
And if you try to go much further back from that, the trail kind of goes cold. You can kind of make some educated guesses at which regions in their various old countries the different branches of my family came from, but not much more than that, except on the aforementioned polish side, some of those ancestors were a little more recent immigrants (though still well-before my time) and we have some communication with some relatives in Poland. Nothing regular, but once in a while someone on either side reaches out to see how things are going, and we know enough that if we really wanted to we could probably track each other down if we ever ended up in each other's countries.
But overall, my family history pretty much begins with my great-great(or so) grandparents arriving in America and settling in my hometown.
Maybe 250 miles. While I have “rose colored glasses” about that being a wonderful place to grow up, now it’s all grey monochrome dystopia. The major tech employer left and the town never recovered. Many years later it’s exactly the same, but decayed.
At this point I’ve lived in my current town almost as long, my current region longer. It’s home
5 miles away from spawn point, the furthest I've lived is 300 miles away but in the same nation, my spawn city is absolutely home to me, even if not ethnically from here, I am very privileged to be born here
Currently 7 miles / 11.3 km away, but have lived 3941 miles / 6343 km away.
The fact that I'm now so close again is pretty much pure chance.
Around 20km from the town I was born in. Never lived there though, so it's not really my home but definitely part of my home region. I do currently live in the village and house I grew up in, which I would consider as home.
I am thousands of miles away from my home. I have been back a few times over the decades and every time I feel more peace, because I am home. I don't feel at home where I live, it still feels foreign to me because the environment is so different than the land my heart calls home.
The heartbreaking part is that it has deteriorated in some parts so that my heart hurts seeing it. The part that I am from remains what I remember, but going to the major city causes distress at the state of things.
20 km, and yes, definitely my home, i'd say :D
I live about an hour from my spawn point. I don't consider it home as I left it 15 years ago after realizing it was dead end city full of terrible people.
I was born at the north end of a valley, went to collage in the middle of the valley (maybe 2/3rds down), and then settled down at south end of the valley. About 100mi / 160km. Where I live now is home, my spawn point hasn't been my home in over half my life.
Though I've lived for months at a time in a few more distant cities, all in the US.
Mine is 4,242 km (2,636 mi). I will never go back.
I work 20ish miles from the hospital I was born in. I live probably 5 minutes from it driving. I have probably lived half my life here. I call it home but I live in a world that my younger self would never recognize. I was ultra poor growing up and now I mingle with the town elite and have one of the historic houses that is iconic for lots of people here.
I lived 20+ years 300 miles away from my hometown and thought I would never live here again. But life is funny like that.
At 2 km from the former hospital. Nowadays there is a new one but it's at like 4 km
Weirdly I’m only 17 kms as I’m staying with friends while I’m away from home working. I actually live 90 kms away now, though I lived all over the world growing up. The furthest away was 12k kms.
8,130km. Neither current location not spawn point feel like home. That would be 1,667km from spawn and 9,788km from here.
4300km. I’ll go back for a few more funerals and maybe because downtown Boston has fantastic food.
I'm about 80 miles from where I was hatched. Moved away when I had kids because I didn't want to raise them in Winnipeg (Canada) because.. well.. Winnipeg.
It'll always be my home town, but I now live in an area with a population density of 7 ppl per square mile, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. (The loudest things out here are the birds, and it's nice and peaceful.)
Currently not far, but I’m going to be moving to another country in a couple months and it will be about 5,000 miles away
2312 miles, or 3,721 km. From the east coast of the US to the west coast.
549 miles. It’s a blue state beckoning me back as well.
480km away. Not much
And no
Half a world away. It hasn’t been my home for more than 2 decades now.
In functional reality, I've lived in the same place all my life. In technical terms I'm less than 5 miles from the hospital where I was born.
I'm determined to be the short side of the 50 mile average.
Like 10 kilometers? The hospital I was born in was torn down but I still live in the same town and I don't plan on leaving.
2000ish km
About 1600km, and fuck no. Hit the ground running when I was 16 and never called anywhere home again.
74 miles/119km.
I don't consider that specific place home. While it's not particularly far, I have no memories of it and it is different culturally. The state in general though I do consider home.
Several thousand miles and no.
Home is where the close ones are.
Beside that, birth place is 151 km away.16 miles right now.
Over 10,000km. This is home, it's where my kids were born and are growing up. But there's also "back home", where I spent more than half of my life, where I met my wife, and where both our families are other than the two of us and our children.
~2250 miles
Visiting the area feels like going home. I don't belong in my current location and i hate it here.
30 miles in distance, which doesn't seem like much. But very different culturally. Where I grew up often didn't feel like home even when I lived there. It definitely doesn't now.
150ish miles
A few hours. For me home is always a few things: my current residence, the place I grew up, and any place I slept last night that I'll sleep again tonight.
They don't all mean the same thing, but let's go home could mean any of those.
About 26 miles from the hospital I was born in, or 35 miles from my family’s home at the time. I haven’t gone far, but each move has a been a little bit further.
Who knows, by the time I die maybe I’ll live outside the local metro area!
About 6 miles from the hospital I was born in. I guess I technically don’t see that city as my home. I’m from Salford which is a city inside Manchester which is the city I call home.
About 12km. I hope to make it further in the near future, though.
Hard to say, as my "spawn point," was decommissioned a few years ago, and is currently being dismantled. I suspect the medical deck is long gone from the ship.
"Home" has, for me, always referred to where I currently live.
I'm more than a thousand miles away and it never felt like home. The few times I've been back reinforced my decision to leave.
Right now I’m 9.8 miles away. Looking up how far away from it I live…looks like 10 miles. So now I’m wondering if I just spend my life rotating in a 10 miles away radius from my spawn point.
I live about 100km from my hometown. It's where I was born and I lived there on and off for about half my life but I no longer think of it as home.
285 miles, 459 km. But no, absolutely not. My home town is where I grew up, not where I was born.
Looks like 1126 miles. I had to guess the hospital, though. It was never home. Probably left within days never to return.
Other than that, lived my whole life within a 12 mile diameter except when I was in the Army and a 5 year stint in DC.
About 120 miles. I am still familiar with the town, I've been back several times, but it's not my home. I've lived in the city I live in now for a little over 30 years.
About 30 miles. I guess I'd consider it local, but I've never considered that specific town home.
A bit over 1200 miles. Haven't been to Texas since before i could read, once got close enough in Oklahoma to seat the GIANT WALL OF HEAT to the south and promptly said fuck that. No desire to ever be there.
~230 kilometers. I'm home now. That's not home. Left there at age 13.
2307.9 miles. Don't remember Northern California at all.
I am 9.4km away from where I was born, in a different city, and I don't consider where I was born my home.
2208 km, moved when I was in my early 20s. Still have friends and family there so I visit occasionally, but I have no desire to move back.